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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter consists of two sections based on the results and the findings. The first section describes the frequencies of the verbs refuse and reject. The
second section discusses the collocations of the verbs refuse and reject related to the context meanings.
A. The Frequencies of the Verbs Refuse and Reject
To conduct this study, the data needed were taken from COCA. The tokens of the verbs refuse and reject were from 2011 to 2012. It would be a discussion
about the comparison of the frequencies of the verbs refuse and reject. It would be seen which one of the verbs that was used the most.
The words refuse and reject in COCA were not classified into the word classes. Thus, in the lists of each word, refuse and reject could occur as a noun
and as a verb. This was the table of the occurrences frequencies of refuse and reject
in COCA 2011 – 2012.
Table 4.1 The Frequencies of Refuse and Reject in COCA 2011 – 2012
Word Frequency
Total 2011
2012 refuse
288 146
434 reject
217 93
310
Table 4.1 above showed that refuse had more number of occurrences than reject
from 2011 to 2012. Refuse occurred 288 times in 2011 and 146 times in
46 2012. In the total, refuse occurred 434 times. Reject appeared 217 times in 2011
and 93 times in 2012. The total occurrences of reject were 310. In result, refuse had a higher number of the frequency rather than reject. It indicated that refuse
was commonly used more than reject.
1. The Frequency of the Verb Refuse
The occurrences of refuse in COCA from 2011 to 2012 were not only as a verb. There were 16 tokens from COCA 2011 which showed refuse as a noun
which meant “something such as paper or food waste that has been thrown away” “Refuse”. Take for instance in the tokens below.
3 events, today 119 souls have come to watch the Dotsons sell off the abandoned refuse of shattered lives. Here are the rules, folks, says
COCA: USA Today 4 , pausing briefly to collect 50 from a resident planning to take 20 loads
of refuse to the town dump. Im not supposed to have to leave my COCA: NY Times
5 and go right back into the nest. Finally, midden workers toil over the refuse pile and over the pebbles that the ants bring back to cover the
mound. COCA: Natural Hist
This case also happened in the tokens of refuse in COCA 2012. After examining the tokens, it was found that there were 11 tokens which used refuse as
a noun. The tokens below were the examples which indicated the use of the noun refuse
. 6 has command. They came in at night unseen, buried themselves amid
wreckage and refuse, two rifles, two cones of fire, and a long wait for a COCA: Alpha
7 vampires remains just lying there, trickling into the gutter with all the other refuse of the city. On the other hand, I couldnt do anything to
COCA: Wicked City Zephyr 8 debris, and dirt, so, in this overflow of passions, all the refuse of mens
souls was washed up and brought to the surface; this added COCA: Iowa Rev
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